1·The first to arrive at the pulsating source proceed to form synaptic connections with their targets; any laggards, by contrast, fail to proliferate and instead degenerate.
首先到达脉冲源的神经元就会和他们的靶点形成突触结合，相比之下，落后者不是繁殖而是退化。
2·Sales of the stakes the savings banks hold in Spanish companies and takeovers of laggards by the healthier ones could fund some of that.
出售储蓄银行持有的公司股权和资产更为健康者收购落后者可能为此筹得部分资金。
3·The OECD's comparisons of national figures on health, education and economic activity are used to encourage laggards.
经合组织将成员国的卫生，教育和经济活动的国家统计数据进行比较以督促落后者进步。
4·That has brought a switch from laggards to leaders of some $1.1 billion of the $13 billion so far paid out.
到目前为止，130亿美元中的11亿美元发放给从曾经的落后者变成今天的领导者。